Testbed and Methods

The technological advantages of the Sempron 3000+ for Socket 939 over its Socket 754 analog put it into an intermediate position between the Socket 754 Sempron 3000+ and the Socket 939 Athlon 64 3000+. Considering that both Sempron 3000+ models are going to cost you about the same money, it will be quite interesting to check the performance level of the Socket 939 one.

So, we performed our tests to compare the two versions of Sempron 3000+ between each other and with the Athlon 64 3000+. To have a bigger picture, we also admitted a competing product to the race – an Intel Celeron D 351 processor with a default clock rate of 3.2GHz.

Here’s a full list of hardware parts we made use of during this test session: